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Teaching during Rounds: A Handbook for Attending Physicians and Residents

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Teaching during rounds is one of many tasks academic physicians accomplish during a busy work day. This neat little soft cover book contains many helpful tips for attending physicians and residents who are involved in the education of medical students. The authors address teaching in a variety of areas such as the bedside, the hallway, and the conference room. The last chapter nicely summarizes the recommendations given in each of the preceding chapters for both attendings as well as residents. Overall, this is a useful text for those with an interest in improving their teaching skills. Its main drawback is a lack of depth in most topics in the book.

This small, easily read book is absolutely outstanding. I found it really helped me to focus my efforts to teach learning physicians within the context of providing clinical care. Though some of the specifics don't fit my area of practice, the concepts outlined are exceptional and could be applied by any academic physician taking his or her teaching responsibilities seriously. It should, perhaps, be mandatory reading for all beginning academic physicians. If you're a teaching physician, read this book, give it some thought, and make yourself a better teacher.

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Teaching During Rounds: A Handbook for Attending Physicians and Residents.

AUTHORS

· Donn Weinholtz, Ph.D.
o College of Education, Nursing, and the Health Professions
o University of Hartford
· Janine Edwards, Ph.D.
o Department of Surgery
o Saint Louis University School of Medicine

CONSULTING MEDICAL EDITOR| Professor Laura M. Mumford, M.D., MACP
· Department of Medicine
· The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

REVIEWER

Josh Grossman, Colonel {r}, US Army Medical Corps, M.D., FACP

E-MAIL OF REVIEWER| drjosh@embarqmail.com
· Physician-Author-Educator
· Tutor/Mentor U.S.M.L.E. Step 3

BOOK TYPE| soft cover

BOOK PAGES| 127

BOOK PUBLISHER

· The Johns Hopkins University Press
· 2715 North Charles Street
· Baltimore, Maryland
· 21218 - 4319

COPYRIGHT| 1992

"To Study Medicine Without Books is to sail an Uncharted Sea--
To Study Medicine Without Patients is not to go to Sea at All!" {1}

Sweet are the uses of Adversity; which, like the Toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head. And this our life except from public haunt finds:
· Tongues in Trees
· Books in Running Brooks
· Sermons in Stone
· And
· Good in Everything" {2}

The crux {3} of this outstanding text might well appear to be our unique--Johns Hopkins--resident-empowerment. The best example in this text may well be when a Senior Resident in speaking to a Consultant in reference to an actively drinking identified patient endorsed, "Now you will please be kind and nice to this patient today!" This caught my attention as I have served as a MedPsych Consultant to an inpatient Psychiatry Unit {4} and I have professionally known some Allied Healthcare Provider Professionals who may well have been perhaps somewhat aloof {5} in their professional relationships with their Chemically Dependent Identified Patients. After my having learned from Professor A. McGeHee Harvey, M.D., M.A.C.P. {6} (on his internal medicine bedside rounds); and Professor Phillip A. Tumulty {7} M.D. M.A.C.P. (on his Topics in Internal Medicine Course), I appreciate and respect our Johns Hopkins Residency Training Programs that empower Senior Residents to assure that due, proper efforts and attempts are ongoing to assure the highest quality of medical treatment and care for any and all patients!
Bravo Professor Harvey!
Bravo Professor Tumulty!
In sum this text brings back fond Johns Hopkins Memories {8}.
A copy of this text belongs in all of our Hospital Medical Libraries. Incoming first year medical students and first year internal medicine residents should be given a copy to read and discuss with their Mentors.
Bravo Professor Donn Weinholtz!
Bravo Professor Janine Edwards!
Bravo Professor Laura Mumford!


REFERENCES

1. Sir William Osler {1849 - 1919}
2. Sir William Shakespeare {1564 - 1616} "As You Like It"
3. Perhaps quintessential issue, perhaps core issue.
4. Grossman, Joshua B. "Detox Diagnostics - Keeping Medicine in Psychiatry"
Psychiatric Times Volume XIV Issue 01, pages 49-54, January 2002.
5. Perhaps not friendly, cool, distant, perhaps uninvolved and uninterested.
6. Distinguished Johns Hopkins Professor of Medicine {1911 - 1998}
7. Distinguished Johns Hopkins Professor of Medicine {1912 - 1989}
8. Grossman, Joshua B. "Hopkins Memory Lane"l, January 2002